Advice for new users (members) about access to multiple profiles

1. How can new members of a network learn that they can have multiple profiles? Is it possible to make a dropdown list that they can choose from?

2. Is it always necessary for the Admin to approve each profile type wanted by a new member?

3. Will members have to log in with a different login password for each profile?

Can answers to these questions be bundled together in a FAQ or video aimed at new members of a network?

Perhaps this has alrady been done, so I will keep looking around Jamroom.net for answers, and experimenting on my own site. Thanks.


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 04/26/15 08:57:32PM

1. They can only have multiple profiles IF the admin of that site decides they can. If they can then the admin would need to tell them that, perhaps in the "How this site works" page.

2. "each profile type" not sure what that means.

3. no. they will have a "Your Profiles" button in the menu at the top of the page where they can see their profiles and go to them. Once there they can edit it like normal. No need to change.

Thanks again. Further thoughts follow, which may not require a response, but there is one concrete question in the last paragraph.

Now I am beginning to see that the idea of "following" is a central structural feature of the Jamroom system. What people follow does not necessarily have to be another person, but it does have to be something that has a profile.

When they join a network, new members will likely have a default "standard" membership in a profile category (or type) with a basic quota of modules allocated to it.

With this they can create a certain number of things themselves, but otherwise they have to "follow" other members (i.e. profiles) to have access to other stuff created in the network.

In my case, I do not want members willy-nilly forming their own groups and trying to gather followers to those groups. My aim is to keep the focus of the network very clear. So no groups module for the standard member profile category.

In our network, standard members will need to follow a network corporate member (the Publish Science Network, PSN) where a consistently managed set of groups will be established.

It seems that they only way that people can join groups they have not created themselves is by following other people (or the corporate member, PSN) who do have access to the Groups module.

Perhaps, when I have learned how to control the menu system, I can create a navigation system that guides members to groups directly, so that they do not have to consicously decide to "follow" the PSN.

Somehow, I have to minimise the number of decisions people must make in order to use key content of the network. I want navigation around the network to be as frictionless as possible. I think this can be done by concentrating most of the core functions into just one or two corporate profiles (The PSN profile, and the Chief Administrator profile),

Now I am wondering why there is no topic category system for discussions inside Groups, similar to the topic category system that is provided for forums. Is that something that might be possible in the future?


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/14/15 08:58:01PM